*stabs you politely*

should i quote something by right wing women in response or keep writing pro-abortion quotes

I am a mother. I was in a heterosexual relationship during my early twenties. The reason why I am so passionately against DDLG is because I know for a fact that my daughter’s father had looked at DDLG material at some point before I left him (he did not share this with me, but I spotted some on his web history). I tried to raise concerns, but my daughter was legally compelled to continue to visit him for unsupervised contact. To what should surprise no one, he molested her when she was four years old…possibly even before that. The link between DDLG kink and actual pedophilia isn’t theoretical for me - it’s the nightmare that I have to go through every day of my life.

So, respectfully? Fuck you.

Fuck you and every other adult out there that fetishises my daughter’s abuse. Fuck every adult that treats my daughter’s horror as a kink or a sex game. Fuck you for knowing that your SO is aroused by the aesthetic, behaviours and helplessness of childhood, but having a child with him anyway.

DDs do not ‘respect consent’. They are aroused by the idea of molesting someone who is incapable of consent. That is the whole basis of the kink. It’s a pedophilic child abuse fantasy.

Simulated pedophilia is still pedophilia. How is a DD any different to a non-active pedophile? What separates the sexual fantasies of a DD from those of a pedophile? What is the difference????

“Beating” mental illness is actually the norm, not the exception. Most people who have a major depressive episode never have another one. 80% of people who survive their first suicide attempt never make a second attempt. 93% of Borderline Personality Disorder patients achieve remission. Up to 74% of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder achieve significant clinical improvement in their symptoms, and 20% achieve full remission. Half of Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients achieve remission after the acute phase of treatment. Even disorders with relatively low rates of remission - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder - generally become milder and easier to manage as you age. Psychiatric symptoms tend to peak in your 20s and generally drop off as you get older, especially if you seek treatment. 

This is why the narratives we use to talk about mental illness matter so much. Right now, the dominant narrative is that mental illness is “an imbalance in the brain” and that it’s largely something that people are born with. There are upsides and downsides to this. The upside is that it promotes the idea that mental illness is not the ill person’s fault, and it helps us understand that mental illness can impact anyone, regardless of their life circumstances. The downside, however, is that it’s sort of given us this idea that mental illness is inborn and unchangeable. People have taken on the idea that “that’s just how my brain is”, when the reality is that, for most people, mental illness is less of a stable trait for them, and more of just a shitty thing that they are going through for a little while. The idea that mental illness is just “in your brain” also erases the very real connection between your life circumstances and your mental health - while it’s very true that a wealthy person in a happy marriage can become depressed, it’s also very true that living in poor conditions and being in an abusive marriage can be the cause of depression, and that improving your life circumstances can lessen or eliminate mental health conditions. 

If you have a mental health condition, it’s very important that you not resign yourself to the idea that you’re going to be like this forever. Chances are, you won’t. Even if you have a mental health condition that is associated with low rates of remission, it is possible to make leaps and bounds in your functioning, and to get to a point where managing your condition becomes second nature to you. Our understanding of mental illness is improving every year, and new therapies and treatments are becoming available all the time. If you seek treatment and do your best to manage your condition, you have every reason to believe that you will make huge improvements. 

Emma Gonzalez

Malala Yousafzai

Ruby Bridges

Greta Thunberg

Mari Copeny

Autumn Peltier

Afreen Khan

Sophie Cruz

Charlottesville Black Students Union

Naomi Wadler

DAPL protestors (names not found)

Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.

Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.

7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.

Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital. 

This is Lepa Radic, a 17 year old girl who fought against the Nazis in Yugoslavia. She was executed when she refused to give the names of her Partisan comrades.

well, we know that from early childhood to post graduate university, women and girls do better by a large margin. many more women have degrees than men. we know that women are less likely to get hired, promoted, and paid more. we know that women ask for promotions and raises just as much as men. 

this provides two possible options: 

1. that despite being better at education, having higher work productivity, having more degrees, having more additional skills like languages, first aid, etc., somehow men are just…superior in some nebulous way that doesn’t correlate with any physical or statistical attribute.

2. women are discriminated against. 

surprise, they’re the same answer! one just reveals something about society, the other reveals something about the person.